Downtime Calculator | Secure Your Business

Think your business could handle some downtime?

Downtime Cost Calculator

Estimate the business impact of an outage (full or partial).

Annual revenue

$

Used to estimate revenue per hour.

Business hours per week

hrs

e.g., 8 × 5 = 40

Operating weeks per year

wks

Typically 52 (adjust for holidays/seasonality).

Impact to revenue during outage

%

100% for full outage, lower for partial disruption.

Employees affected

people

Count only those materially impacted.

Average loaded hourly wage

$

Include benefits/overhead if you want realism.

Productivity loss (affected staff)

%

Use e.g., 50% if staff can perform partial work.

Downtime duration

hrs

You can enter decimals (e.g., 0.5 = 30 min).

Additional hard costs (optional)

$

Expedited recovery, penalties, overtime, etc.

Reputation/opportunity multiplier

×

Conservative 1.0; try 1.1–1.3 for soft impact.

Currency

For display only.

Decimal places

Round results as you prefer.

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Think your business could handle some downtime?

Downtime Cost Calculator

Revenue per hour

Lost revenue

Lost productivity

Hard costs

Opportunity impact

Per hour (blended)

Total downtime cost

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